Daly was short listed for the 2010 Shirley Ujest Dead Pool Team.
AIGH!!!
Hell, I used to WRITE obits. You don’t know from morbid till you do that for cash money.
Like when Mary and Rhoda had to redo all the obit cards at 2 in the morning?
So…gloomy champagne and strawberries, then? I mean, I hope your family and friends are really sad when you die and don’t want to have a party. It wouldn’t be good if they disliked you enough to be happy when you died, right?
I mean, I don’t want people I love to be paralyzed by grief for years on end, but I think having them be bummed out long enough to cover the week of the funeral would be an indication that they missed me at least a little. 
I think the idea behind having a party when someone dies is not, “Woo-hoo! He’s dead, let’s get our freak on!” but rather, “Fred is gone. We miss him, but let’s think about all the good times we had together, and celebrate his life.”
Recently, driving a truckload of elementary school children home, the subject came up of DEATH.
Though it is a favorite of mine, I did not bring this up and I let the kids jabber away, wondering what direction it would take.
It quickly turned into, " When I die I want a ( coffin made of Gold)" one upmanship.
So I piped in, " When I die, I want to be shot out of a cannon!"
The kids all got quiet for a moment, then one eight year old boy said, " That’s gonna be a big cannon!"
" I know!" I ejaculated. Giggling returned at the image.
“What about where your body lands?” asked another, in a concerned voice.
" Who cares where I land! I’ll BE DEAD!"
I think I may have warped their brains forever, but they will be Dead Poolers in a few years, mark my words.
Bud Tingwell has died, aged 86 
Bob Rosburg, PGA Champion a longtime golf announcer has died at age 82. He was legendary for saying the shot was impossible and then the player will pull it off.
Shirley Ujest did you really want to say “ejaculated”?
Not able to speak for Shirley, but the use of the word in that context was entirely acceptable, if a little unusual.
Frank Aletter, who starred in the situation comedies Bringing Up Buddy (1960-61) and It’s About Time (1966-67), has died at the age of 83. From 1958 to '70, the veteran actor was married to former Miss America Lee Meriwether.
Wayman Tisdale, who was on my short list but didn’t make the final 13, has died at the age of 44. Nobody had him.
Thomas Buckley died
more points for me.
I do. As Mary Anne Meacham said in The Great Santini, “I want there to be no holding back at my funeral. I want there to be real grief. I want blubbering and wailing and loud gnashing of teeth. I want people to kill themselves rather than face a world that does not include Freddy the Pig.”
Unless, of course, they have me in a Death Pool. Then it’s OK to be a little giddy.
I noted his passing in another thread.
Today’s Engrish Lesson in the Dead Pool Pit is :
**Ejaculation:
ejac·u·lat·ed; ejac·u·lat·ing
Etymology: Latin ejaculatus, past participle of ejaculari to throw out, from e- + jaculari to throw, from jaculum dart, from jacere to throw — more at jet
Date: 1578
transitive verb
1: to eject from a living body ; specifically : to eject (semen) in orgasm
2:* to utter suddenly and vehemently*
intransitive verb
: to eject a fluid
**
Ok, Point taken, It just seemed like a strange word to use when talking about a carpool of kids.
Brace yourselves people - in an unprecedented development a rapper has been gunned down. Dolla is gone, but his song “Who the F*ck is That?” will live in my heart forever.
Cap’n that link doesn’t go where you think it does.
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Fixed link in the Cap’n’s post. Cap - if that’s not the link you wanted to use, let me know, OK?
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Not the link I tried to link to, but who cares? It’ll do.